Research Paper on:
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright

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remains its most revered architect. Contrary to Wrights opinion, historys intention is not to mislead, but to provide an explanation for the present by retracing the footsteps of the  past. During his fabled career that spanned more than seventy years, Frank Lloyd Wright not only designed some of the most impressive buildings in American, including the S.C. Johnson  and Son Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin; New Yorks Guggenheim Museum; the Avery Coonley Playhouse in Riverside, Illinois; and the breathtaking Kaufmann Fallingwater home in Mill Run, Pennsylvania; among other  notable private dwellings in over thirty-five states, but he also designed the majestic Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan (Pinck 267). Frank Lloyd Wright never did anything small; that was  not his style. His mother had taught him to dream big, and he believed that for an American individual, anything was truly possible. He explained with the blunt  candor which was his trademark, "I had to make a noise in the world, in order to gain as much of the worlds attention as I could. Otherwise, I  would have had a lot of work on paper and only a little of it coming up out of the ground in bricks and mortar" (Pinck 267). While Frank Lloyd  Wright created a style uniquely his own, he followed in the footsteps of Americas founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson. After serving under the tutelage of famed architect Chicago Louis  Sullivan, Wright wasted no time in making his own mark, not only in the architectural world, but on the American landscape. By age 50, he had already amassed an  impressive body of work, including the Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo, New York; the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois; Chicagos Robie House; and his own famed (and notorious) estate,